Tag: Cayman Airways
CAL returning to Cuba next week
(CNS): Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) has been given approval from the Cuban Government to resume its commercial service to Havana next week after more than 20 months. The regular route was stopped when the borders were closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite efforts to introduce a regular repatriation flight and then resume […]
CAL returning to Big Apple in time for Christmas
(CNS): Cayman Airways is relaunching its Grand Cayman to New York route in December, just in time for the Christmas Holidays. The first flight back to the Big Apple since March 2020 will depart from Owen Roberts International Airport on 16 December. The resumption of the National Airline’s popular New York route will see four […]
CAL urges passengers to learn US travel rules
(CNS): From today, all non-US citizens flying into the United States must be fully vaccinated in order to travel, a requirement that is part of a new international air travel policy introduced by the US government. All foreign travellers must also show a negative COVID-19 test result. Cayman Airways is urging passengers to conduct their research and […]
CAL adjusts loads to allow return to La Ceiba
(CNS): Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) has resumed flights from Grand Cayman and La Ceiba, Honduras, which were interrupted after the Goloson International Airport (LCE) was suddenly downgraded in relation to its safety operations preventing CAL’s Max 8 aircraft from landing there at full capacity. But CAL has now limited passenger loads to B737-300 aircraft levels […]
Cayman Airways retires last two 737-300s
(CNS): Cayman Airways bid farewell to its last two Boeing 737-300 jets last week as Captain Perry Panton and First Officer Geoffery Connolly flew the 25-year-old planes to the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, where they will be stored pending sale. CAL operated the 737-300 jets for three decades but it has now switched […]
Woman charged for flying with positive COVID test
(CNS): A 28-year-old Jamaican woman who is resident in the Cayman Islands is due to appear in court tomorrow charged with failure to comply with COVID-19 control regulations. The woman was arrested in September after she was able to board a flight in Jamaica bound for Cayman, despite being positive for the virus, in contravention […]
Safety issues still stalling CAL’s La Ceiba flight
(CNS): The Goloson International Airport (LCE) in La Ceiba, Honduras, has still not increased its Category 6 safety grade, despite assuring Cayman Airways that measures were being put in place to facilitate today’s scheduled flights, the airline has said. As a result, Thursday morning’s jet flight KX882 was canceled and once again the national flag […]
Cayman Airways confirms return to Tampa
(CNS): Cayman Airways has resumed its commercial flights between Grand Cayman and Tampa after more than 18 months since the borders closed to international flights in March 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Paul Tibbetts, Executive Vice President of Finance and Commercial Affairs, noted that the airline has been flying this route since 1986 and […]
Airport downgrade puts La Ceiba route in jeopardy
(CNS): Cayman Airways will be taking passengers to La Ceiba, Honduras, on its Saab 340B+ aircraft today after a sudden and unexpected downgrade to the Goloson International Airport in La Ceiba means the airline cannot land its Boeing 737-8 jets there. CAL said in a release that the airport had issued an official Notification To […]
CAL adds Tampa to growing flight service
(CNS): For the first time in 18 months Caymanians will fly directly to Tampa, Florida, with a Saturday service starting from 16 October, as Cayman Airways starts to increase its flights. CAL published its new schedule on Friday, which includes a weekly Thursday service to La Ceiba, five flights a week to Miami and three […]
Bird hits CAL windshield on Brac to GC flight
(CNS): Passengers aboard Sunday night’s Cayman Airways flight from Cayman Brac to Grand Cayman had an unnerving moment when the B737-8 aircraft turned back shortly after takeoff because a bird had struck the windshield. The captain did not declare an emergency as the windscreen was not damaged and the plane was functioning normally, but out […]
